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eWALL: An Open-Source Cloud-Based eHealth Platform for Creating Home Caring Environments for Older Adults Living with Chronic Diseases or Frailty

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Independent living of older adults is one of the main challenges linked to the ageing population. Especially those living with diseases like COPD, MCI or frailty, need more support in everyday life and this is by itself a big societal challenge with impact in multiple sectors. In this paper we present eWALL, an innovative open-source eHealth platform that aims to address these challenges by means of an advanced cloud-based infrastructure. eWALL is designed in an innovative manner and achieved technical breakthroughs in eHealth platforms, while prioritizing user and market needs that are often abandoned and are the major reason for technically sound solutions that fail. We consider this as an opportunity and we aim to change the eHealth systems’ experience for older adults and break the barriers for the penetration of ICT solutions.

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Acknowledgement

This paper is based on the joint research work of the eWALL project consortium (EC, FP7 Grant Agreement no 610658). The authors would like to acknowledge the research effort of all eWALL colleagues for making this paper possible, as well as the European Commission for providing the FP7 funding framework.

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  1. Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark

    Sofoklis Kyriazakos, Ramjee Prasad & Albena Mihovska

  2. Athens Information Technology, Marousi, Greece

    Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis

  3. Roessingh Research and Development, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Harm op den Akker & Hermie Hermens

  4. Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Milan, Italy

    Paolo Barone, Alessandro Mamelli & Samuele de Domenico

  5. STELAR, Hamburg, Germany

    Matthias Pocs

  6. Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Zagreb, Croatia

    Andrej Grguric & Miran Mosmondor

  7. University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Dina Simunic & Antun Kerner

  8. University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro

    Nikola Zaric & Milica Pejanović-Djurišić

  9. Technical University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Vladimir Poulkov & Krasimir Tochev

  10. Austrian Institute of Technology, Seibersdorf, Austria

    Beatrix Zechmann, Markus Garschall & Angeliki Angeletou

  11. IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy

    Stefano Bonassi & Francesco Infarinato

  12. University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

    Octavian Fratou, Alexandru Vulpe & Carmen Voicu

  13. Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Macedonia

    Liljana Gavrilovska & Vladimir Atanasovski

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Kyriazakos, S., Prasad, R., Mihovska, A. et al. eWALL: An Open-Source Cloud-Based eHealth Platform for Creating Home Caring Environments for Older Adults Living with Chronic Diseases or Frailty. Wireless Pers Commun 97, 1835–1875 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-017-4656-7

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